Society and technology: Opportunities and Challenges

✍ Scribed by Ewa Lechman (Editor), Magdalena Popowska (Editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies (ICT) impact social development and contribute to social welfare. Its aim is to show how new technological solutions may contribute to society’s welfare by encouraging new ‘socially responsible’ initiatives and practices as the broad adoption of new technologies becomes an integral component of organizations, and of the overall economy.

Society and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges is designed to provide deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on ICT as socially responsible technologies. More specifically, it puts special focus on examining the following:

how channels of ICT impact on social progress, environmental sustainability and instability
the role of ICT in creating social networks, with positive and negative consequences of networking
how ICT encourages education, skills development, institutional development, etc.
the ethical aspects of technological progress, and
technology management for social corporate responsibility.

The book is written primarily for scholars and academic professionals from a wide variety of disciplines that are addressing issues of economic development and growth, social development, and the role of technology progress in broadly defined socioeconomic progress. It is also an invaluable source of knowledge for graduate and postgraduate students, particularly within economic and social development, information and technology, worldwide studies, social policy or comparative economics

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 ICT and social development: Conceptual considerations
1.1 Society and technology
1.2 The Digital Revolution
1.3 Linking ICT to social development: opportunities and threats
Acknowledgement
References
2 I, Robot: Between angel and evil
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Artificial intelligence’s path to independent decision-making
2.3 Recent applications of AI and their possible impact on our lives
2.4 Responsible and ethical artificial intelligence
2.5 Some existing answers to the challenge of ethical/responsible AI
2.6 Concluding remarks
Notes
References
3 Next-generation networks as general-purpose technologies: The impact on economic development
3.1 Introduction: background and purpose
3.2 Data and descriptive statistics
3.3 Econometric methodology and identification strategy
3.4 Estimation results
3.5 Concluding remarks
Appendix
4 After access: The importance of social capital and Internet use for human development
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Theoretical framework
4.2.1 People-centered development: the Capability Approach
4.2.2 It is not what you know, but who you know: social capital as a determinant of Internet use
4.3 Methodology
4.3.1 Internet use for specific activities (within capabilities model)
4.3.2 Internet use for diverse activities (cross capabilities model)
4.4 Data
4.5 Results
4.5.1 Within capabilities model
4.5.2 Cross capabilities model
4.5 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Appendix
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Notes
References
5 The regional shaping of ICT: Exploring the links between ICT research, innovation and diffusion
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Conceptual framework and literature review
5.3 Methodology
5.4 Data
5.5 Results
5.6 Conclusions
Notes
References
6 Forecasting business software piracy rates: A machine-learning approach
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Literature review
6.3 Some general considerations for machine learning
6.3.1 Introduction to support vector regression models
6.3.2 Introduction to regression models
6.3.3 Applications of machine-learning techniques in economics and finance
6.4 Key variables and data
6.4.1 Dependent variable
6.4.2 Independent variables
6.5 Empirical results
6.5.1 Specific methods: imputation of missing values
6.6 Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
7 ICT for education and health care systems: Potentialities and discrepancies in low- and high-income countries
7.1 Introduction
7.2 ICT for education: effectiveness and impact
7.3 ICT for better health care systems: opportunities and challenges
7.4 Low- and high-income countries: are they equally ICT-endowed?
7.5 Conclusions and policy recommendations
References
8 Role of social media and digital skills in adoption of online shopping in selected EU countries
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Literature review
8.3 Research strategy
8.4 Results and discussion
8.5 Conclusions
Notes
References
9 ICT as challenging driver for social transformations in Serbia
9.1 Introduction
9.1.1 ICT and employment
9.1.2 The IT industry in Serbia
9.2 Potential of ICT sector in Serbia
9.2.1 ICT in Serbia: business sector facing challenges
9.3 The data and empirical settings
9.3.1 ICT case study design
9.3.1.1 Data collection and methodology
9.3.2 Network analysis in the field of computer science
9.3.2.1 Data collection and methodology
9.3.3 Current and potential human resources in ICT in Serbia in the business and R&D sector
9.4 Results and discussion
9.4.1 Research cooperation in the field of computer science
9.4.2 Network density
9.4.3 Measures of centralization
9.5 Conclusions
Acknowledgement
References
10 The impact of ICT and digitalization on consumer purchase behaviour of Millennials as emerging economic and social force: Th
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Literature review
10.3 Methodology and materials
10.3.1 Empirical sample and data used
10.3.2 Empirical settings/methods
10.4 Results and discussion
10.4.1 Characteristics of Serbian Millennials
10.4.2 Digital behaviour segments model
10.4.3 Digital activities
10.4.4 E-commerce habits
10.4.5 Attitude towards local products
10.4.6 Foods and drinks and free time
10.4.7 Media consumption
10.5 Conclusion
References
11 Forecasting risks and challenges of digital innovations: Towards a Socially Responsible Design agenda
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Related research
11.3 Methodology
Stage A
Stage B
Stage C
Stage D
Stage E
11.4 Results
11.4.1 Catalogues of DI-related threats, damages and policies
11.4.2 AHP analysis: impact of TRIGGERS on DI_FAILURE
11.4.3 AHP analysis: contribution of POLICIES to DI_SECURITY
11.4.4 Relationship matrix for profiling POLICIES
11.5 Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgement
References
12 Internationalization of an educational software as a service (EduSaaS) company
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Internationalization in a born global setting
12.3 Case study: educational software as a service (SaaS) company
12.4 Conclusions
References
13 Evaluation of a company’s image on social media using the Net Sentiment Rate
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Related work
13.2.1 Measurement of sentiment on social media
13.3 Methodology
13.3.1 Data collection
13.3.2 Software
13.3.3 The sentiment analysis procedure
13.3.4 Measurement
13.4 Results and discussion
13.5 Conclusions
References
Index